Notation of matrix X. DLS C1 W2

Course Q&A Deep Learning Specialization Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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So to recap, x is an nx by m dimensional matrix, and when you implement this in Python, you see that x.shape, the python command for finding the shape of the matrix, that this an nx, m. That means it is an nx by m dimensional matrix. So that’s how you group the training examples, and input x into a matrix.

I have recently completed the new MLS course2(Advanced network algorithms). In that course the shape of X was m,nx. even in the practice X.shape is m,nx

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You are right about (m, num_features) being the common representation of a dataset.
That said, you’ll notice that some notebooks use a different orientation. The only thing that matters is that the convention used in the notebook should be documented when necessary.